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Mammillaria bombycina, the silken pincushion cactus, is a small clustering cactus from western Mexico, grown for its white woolly spines and pink spring flowers. The key to growing it is full sun, sharp drainage, and very little water.
Mammillaria bombycina, the silken pincushion cactus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae.
Mammillaria bombycina is one of many Mamillaria species to be cultivated and is among the easiest. In temperate regions it must be grown under glass with heat, preferably in full sun. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. The plant can be grown from seeds which are collected from the ripe fruits.
It is native to Jalisco and Aguascalientes states, in western central Mexico at altitudes between 2340 and 2500 meters. Because of illegal collecting, the wild population is considered to have a vulnerable status.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mammillaria bombycina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
